LAN Contracts in the North East

Local Area Network (LAN)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring LAN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LAN over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 35 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +14 -12
Contract jobs citing LAN 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.61% 0.59% 1.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.13% 4.08% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £235 - £134
25th Percentile £288 - £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £230
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +73.91% -18.58%
75th Percentile £463 - £519
90th Percentile £515 - £550
England median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £43.00 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -65.38% +188.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

LAN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 39 49 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.96% 14.41% 9.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 30 30
10th Percentile £153 £243 £134
25th Percentile £214 £363 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £425 £284
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +49.78% -36.94%
75th Percentile £590 £547 £550
90th Percentile £646 £644 £678
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £28.41 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -28.98% +116.22% -22.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing LAN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for LAN in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LAN in the North East.

Daily rate trend for LAN in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LAN in the North East over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for LAN in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LAN in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for LAN in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LAN within the North East region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Durham +3 2 £375 - 5
LAN
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Installations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Implementation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) F5